Berzin Archives
The Berzin Archives is the collection of works of the American scholar and author Alexander Berzin, who spent 29 years in India, studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism. There, he served as translator primarily for his teacher, the late Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, and occasionally for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Dr. Berzin has taught extensively in universities and Buddhist centers in more than seventy countries since the early 1980s.
With over 30,000 pages of material in English and several other languages, the Berzin Archives contain
- translations and summaries of Tibetan texts
- published books and unpublished manuscripts
- transcripts and teaching outlines for hundreds of courses
- translations and notes on courses by Berzin's teachers
- private question sessions with Tibetan Buddhist masters and Islamic scholars
- reading notes from over a thousand English, German, French, and Russian works
- short Tibetan-English dictionaries of astrological and Buddhist technical terms
- journals of Berzin's world travels and reflections
Supported exclusively by user donations and patrons, Berzin Archives aims to provide on the Internet a free multilingual tool for learning about the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions and about Central Asian history and culture. It is sponsored through Berzin Archives e.V., a German non-profit society in the public domain (gemeinnütziger Verein Register Nr. 2423Nz, Berlin).
- Website: berzinarchives.com
- Detailed bibliographies: [1]
- Tibetan Astrology and Medicine [2]